What might need to learn how to raise money and form Partnerships where you stay in control. 

When you "borrow against", the borrower maintains control over the underlying collateral for the loan.

Additionally they are not controlled by the government.

In reality, I hadn't yet learned that the commercial brokers control 80-90% of the larger commercial deals, and I probably could have found something locally that made sense if I had figured his out earlier!

Give the other person the illusion of control How are we supposed to do that?

My debt is under control and I have a savings account just for investments.

Cash is great but if you have healthy income you don't have to let the lack of a big bundle of bills stop you from getting started - you just need to know that if you ran into a problem, you could access the funds to take care of that problem, and you could pay those funds back in a controlled way without skipping your mortgage payments or having to go to a soup line for awhile. 

There is 1 catch basin on the surface lot for water control.   

Or, in the case of moving money; he who controls the mechanisms by which money is moved wants to know why you're using his systems to move your money.  

One of the main reasons is that it is harder to avoid a taxable event at exit, even if you want to exit but still own/control the underlying property.